Money for the Darby

Columbia Gas is going to give the Ohio Nature Conservancy one of those big checks at a public event Friday and at least some of the money will benefit work to preserve Big Darby Creek.

The natural gas company is going to hand the Conservancy $100,000 during a 9 a.m. event at its Downtown headquarters, on behalf of more than 300,000 customers that agreed to switch to a paper-less electronic billing system.

Nature Conservancy Spokesman Randy Edwards said the money will be split three ways, to benefit efforts to cut pollution in streams running to Lake Erie and the Ohio River. The money will also help the conservation group with it's work on a restoration project in the Big Darby Creek's headwaters.